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The Cultural and Intercultural Dimensions of English as a Lingua Franca / ed. by Prue Holmes, Fred Dervin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Languages for Intercultural Communication and EducationPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781783095094
  • 9781783095100
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • P94.6 .C693 2016
  • P94.6 C85.2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction - English as a Lingua Franca and Interculturality: Beyond Orthodoxies -- Part 1: The Interconnections and Inter-Relationships Between Interculturality and ELF -- 1. Lingua Francas in a World of Migrations -- 2. Interculturalities of English as a Lingua Franca: International Communication and Multicultural Awareness in the Greek Context -- 3. Culture and Language in Intercultural Communication, English as a Lingua Franca and English Language Teaching: Points of Convergence and Conflict -- Part 2: Grounding Conceptual Understandings of Interculturality in ELF Communication -- 4. Talking Cultural Identities into Being in ELF Interactions: An Investigation of International Postgraduate Students in the United Kingdom -- 5. Conflict Talk and ELF Communities of Practice -- 6. Intercultural Misunderstanding Revisited: Cultural Difference as a (non) Source of Misunderstanding in ELF Communication -- 7. Finnish Engineers' Trajectories of Socialisation into Global Working Life: From Language Learners to BELF Users and the Emergence of a Finnish Way of Speaking English -- 8. The Local Purposes of a Global Language: English as an Intracultural Communicative Medium in China -- Part 3: Commentary -- 9. Intercultural Communication and the Possibility of English as a Lingua Franca -- Index
Summary: This book investigates the cultural and intercultural aspects of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Authors discuss how 'culture' and the 'intercultural' can be understood, theorised and operationalised in ELF, and how the concepts can be integrated into formats of ELF-oriented learning and teaching. The various cultural connotations are also discussed (ideological, political, religious and historical) and whether it is possible to use and/or teach a lingua franca as if it were culturally neutral. The chapters consider the communication and pedagogical implications of the cultural and intercultural dimensions of ELF and offer suggestions for new directions in ELF research, pedagogy and curriculum development.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction - English as a Lingua Franca and Interculturality: Beyond Orthodoxies -- Part 1: The Interconnections and Inter-Relationships Between Interculturality and ELF -- 1. Lingua Francas in a World of Migrations -- 2. Interculturalities of English as a Lingua Franca: International Communication and Multicultural Awareness in the Greek Context -- 3. Culture and Language in Intercultural Communication, English as a Lingua Franca and English Language Teaching: Points of Convergence and Conflict -- Part 2: Grounding Conceptual Understandings of Interculturality in ELF Communication -- 4. Talking Cultural Identities into Being in ELF Interactions: An Investigation of International Postgraduate Students in the United Kingdom -- 5. Conflict Talk and ELF Communities of Practice -- 6. Intercultural Misunderstanding Revisited: Cultural Difference as a (non) Source of Misunderstanding in ELF Communication -- 7. Finnish Engineers' Trajectories of Socialisation into Global Working Life: From Language Learners to BELF Users and the Emergence of a Finnish Way of Speaking English -- 8. The Local Purposes of a Global Language: English as an Intracultural Communicative Medium in China -- Part 3: Commentary -- 9. Intercultural Communication and the Possibility of English as a Lingua Franca -- Index

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This book investigates the cultural and intercultural aspects of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Authors discuss how 'culture' and the 'intercultural' can be understood, theorised and operationalised in ELF, and how the concepts can be integrated into formats of ELF-oriented learning and teaching. The various cultural connotations are also discussed (ideological, political, religious and historical) and whether it is possible to use and/or teach a lingua franca as if it were culturally neutral. The chapters consider the communication and pedagogical implications of the cultural and intercultural dimensions of ELF and offer suggestions for new directions in ELF research, pedagogy and curriculum development.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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